8-letter words containing a, c, r, i
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calamari — Calamari is squid that has been prepared for eating, usually by cutting it into rings, dipping it in a mixture of flour, milk and eggs, and frying it.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- callgirl — Alternative spelling of call girl.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprifig — a wild variety of fig, Ficus carica sylvestris, of S Europe and SW Asia, used in the caprification of the edible fig
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- car hire — the act of renting a car
- car line — trolley line.
- car sick — If someone feels car sick, they feel sick as a result of traveling in a car.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- carbamic — of or derived from carbamic acid.
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.